Archive | May 24, 2012
Saudi Arabia. Chief cleric calling for destruction of all churches – girls to be forced into marriage at age 10.

Saudi Arabia. Chief cleric calling for destruction of all churches – girls to be forced into marriage at age 10.

In late April of this year, the Wahhabi grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Ibn Abdullah Aal Ash-Sheikh, who controls all Sunni Muslim clerics in the desert kingdom, announced that girls could be forced into marriage at age 10 or 12, without their consent, by contractual arrangement between families. Aal Ash-Sheikh delivered this [...]

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Iran. Interview with one Iranian church leaders in London, outlined the latest restrictions imposed on churches.

Iran. Interview with one Iranian church leaders in London, outlined the latest restrictions imposed on churches.

Reports indicate that the Ministry of Intelligence has ordered leaders of the central AOG church in Tehran to provide them with a list of the members of the church including their National identity numbers and other personal details. In an interview with Radio Farda, Mansour Borji, one of the Iranian church leaders in London, outlined [...]

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Jordan. Dubai Islamic Bank fires Christian woman for refusing to wear headscarf.

Jordan. Dubai Islamic Bank fires Christian woman for refusing to wear headscarf.

The Jordan Dubai Islamic Bank on Wednesday fired a Christian employee because she refused to wear a scarf to cover her hair as part of uniform for female staff, its spokeswoman said. “The bank warned Vivian Salameh to cover her hair as part of women’s uniform approved earlier this year, but she refused,” Iman Afaneh [...]

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Palestinian Authority TV to kids: Christians and Jews are inferior, cowardly and despised.

Palestinian Authority TV to kids: Christians and Jews are inferior, cowardly and despised.

Moderate Palestinian Authority TV: Jews and Christians are “inferior and smaller, more cowardly and despised”. Imagine the outcry if a Christian TV station said this about Muslims. But no one will take notice of this from the “moderate” Palestinian Authority. “PA TV teaches kids: Christians and Jews are inferior, cowardly and despised,” by Itamar Marcus [...]

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